CONGRATS! 2017 Brant News Readers' Choice Award Winners!

Brant News Readers' Choice Award Winners
Music-related categories below. Click title above form complete list.

Professional Entertainers

• Diamond: Barcode
  
  
  
  Links: BarCode, More BarCode Stories, Video above courtesy of Brantford Ribfest
  
  
• Platinum: Steven Ryan
  
  
  
  Links: Steven Ryan, More Steven Ryan Stories, Video above courtesy of Steven Ryan 
  
  
• Gold: Bill and Brad
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Bill & Brad
  
  
• Honourable Mention: Joan Minnery and Alicia Skoretz

Entertainment

• Diamond: Sanderson Centre
• Platinum: Peeler
• Gold: Melanie Crawford-Relentless and Company
• Honourable Mention: WTFest

Event or Festival

• Diamond: Brantford International Villages Cultural Festivals
• Platinum: Taste Of Glenhyrst
• Gold: Canada Day
• Honourable Mention: Brantford International Jazz Festival

Music Instructor (All from Avalon Music Academy) 

• Diamond: Evelina Rowley 
• Platinum: Darren D'souza
• Gold: Angela D'souza
• Honourable Mention: Ariel Diamond

Music Instruction

• Diamond: Avalon Music Academy
• Platinum:  Joan Minnery Enterprise
• Gold: The Art Of Music Academy
• Honourable Mention: Socrates 62

Music Store (New)

• Diamond: Beat Goes On
• Diamond: Sunrise Records
• Platinum: Value Village

Music Store (Used)

• Diamond: Beat Goes On
• Platinum: Sunrise Records
• Gold: Value Village
• Honourable Mention: Off The Edge Buy and Sell

Musical Instrument Store

• Diamond: Pat Alonzo Music Shop
• Platinum: Brantford Music Centre

Blast From the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: Brant News, More Brant News Readers' Choice Awards Stories

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CONGRATS! 2016 Brant News Readers' Choice Award Winners

The Brant News have released the names of the winners for their 2016 Reader's Choice Awards.  The region's musical community was well-represented in the contest.

Teachers at the Avalon Music Academy swept all the the instructional categories.

Here is a list of all the music-related winners.

• Diamond
• Platinum
• Gold
• Honourable Mention

Live Entertainment

• Sanderson Centre
• Manny's Place
• Arctic Cowboys
  
  
  
  Links; Arctic Cowboys, More Arctic Cowboys Stories, Video above courtesy of Arctic Cowboys
  
  
• WTFest

Professional Entertainers 

• Murray Williams
  
  
  
  Links: Murray Williams, More Murray Williams Stories, Video above courtesy of Murray Williams
  
  
• Captain Kindness
• BarCode
  
  
  
  Links: BarCode, More BarCode Stories, Video above courtesy of Bar Code
  
• Joan Minnery

Dance Club

• Club NV
• Brando's On Market
• Alexanders Tavern
• The Ring-Restaurant

Music Instructor

• Adam Rust (Avalon Music Academy)/Heather Masters (Avalon Music Academy)
• Sabrina Reid-Smith (Avalon Music Academy)
• Darren Dsouza (Avalon Music Academy)/Evelina Rowley (Avalon Music Academy)
• Ariel Diamond (Avalon Music Academy)

Guitar Teacher

• Adam Rust (Avalon Music Academy)
• Darren Dsouza (Avalon Music Academy)
• Hunter Shay (Avalon Music Academy)
• Jonathan Bean (Avalon Music Academy)

Voice Instructor

• Sabrina Reid-Smith (Avalon Music Academy)
• Ariel Diamond (Avalon Music Academy)
• Melissa Rust (Avalon Music Academy)
• Cassie Glaves (Avalon Music Academy)

Music Store (New)

• The Beat Goes On/Sunrise Records
• Value Village

Music Store (Used)

• The Beat Goes On
• Sunrise Records
• Value Village

Musical Instrument Store

• Pat Alonzo Music Shop
• The Brantford Music Centre
• Jammit Music Services

Click here for a full list of winners

CONGRATS EVERYBODY!

Links: Brant News, More Brant News Readers' Choice Awards Stories

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VOTE in the Brant News Readers' Choice Awards (Deadline Sept 25, 6pm)!

There are a ton of music acts to choose from in the 2016 Brant News Reader's Choice Awards.  Two categories Live Entertainment and Professional Entertainers are just brimming with Brant region musicians.

You have until Sunday, September 25 at 6pm to vote for your favourites!

Live Entertainment
(performers only listed below)

• Arctic Cowboys
• BarCode
• The Bareback Riders
• Brad James
• Brant County Singers
• Brantford Memorial Concert Band
• Chris Strei
• Danny Thompson Band
• Edge Of The Bayou
• Eric Mills
• Heckle The Band
• Innersha
• Joan Minnery
• Kyle Rose
• Less Than Three
• Made Outta Myth
• Pay No Mind
• Peeler
• Ruby's Revenge
• Scott Ryan Band
• Squeeler
• Thee Empty Hours
• The Whatever Device

Professional Entertainers 
(Musical acts only listed below)

• 8 Second Ride
• BarCode
• The Bareback Riders
• Benjamin Dakota Rogers
• Big Shiny Two
• Brandon Corke
• Brant County Singers
• Caleb Turgeon
• Checkerboard Floors
• Chris Strei
• Cold Ethyl
• Danny Thompson Band
• Darren Boudreau
• David V. McKee
• Daylight For Dead Eyes
• Dry County
• Edge Of The Bayou
• Eric Mills
• Hairy Mulligan
• Heckle The Band
• Joan Minnery
• Less Than Three
• Mamoth Seed
• Mark Wilson
• Mike Stoneman The Piano Man
• Murray Williams
• Pay No Mind
• Peeler
• Ruby's Revenge
• Ryan Walsh
• Shifty Dickens
• Squeeler
• Steven Ryan
• Thee Empty Hours
• Who Made Who
• XL420

There are many other music related categories such as Dance Club, Music Instructor, Guitar Teacher, Voice Instructor, Music Store (New), Music Store (Used), Musical Instrument Store.

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